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Re: scope of solution..
- To: RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org>
- Subject: Re: scope of solution..
- From: Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 09:29:44 -0500
- CC: multi6@ops.ietf.org
- Delivery-date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 07:31:59 -0700
- Envelope-to: multi6-data@psg.com
- Organization: IBM
RJ Atkinson wrote:
>
> At 12:28 11/04/01, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>
> >Possibly, but that would also require the site's routers to have
> >knowledge about the state of IDR, in order to give useful hints
> >to the hosts. This is not trivial.
>
> However, it is already the case for multi-homed sites
> that the site's edge routers have to meaningfully participate
> in BGP4, so that requirement would not be worse than the
> currently deployed multihoming approach...
IDR is not necessarily BGP4 on the timescale we are discussing,
and I'm not sure that BGP4 conveys adequate information anyway.
Brian